Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-75dct Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-01T00:17:23.824Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

9 - Parent Education in Latino Families of Children with Language Impairment

from Part II - Bilingualism, Literacy Ecologies, and Parental Engagement among Immigrant Families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2019

Elizabeth Ijalba
Affiliation:
Queens College, City University of New York
Patricia Velasco
Affiliation:
Queens College, City University of New York
Catherine J. Crowley
Affiliation:
Teachers College, Columbia University
Get access

Summary

This chapter focuses on describing parent education methodology to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse families and their children with language impairment. The authors highlight the need to support parents in mediating the home language with their children. They describe research with a group of Spanish-speaking immigrant mothers of children with language impairment. Their questions focused on whether early literacy intervention in the L1 (Spanish) can support vocabulary gains across languages in bilingual children with difficulty in language acquisition and whether mothers’ home language practices can improve with intervention. The mothers were trained to mediate language interactions with their children by engaging in shared reading and play activities with support for word concepts and grammar. Children who received early literacy support in Spanish made gains across languages when compared with a waiting control group. This chapter explains theoretical perspectives in parent education, research on the benefits of bilingualism, the research design, ethical considerations in parent education, and a description of the materials provided to parents.
Type
Chapter
Information
Language, Culture, and Education
Challenges of Diversity in the United States
, pp. 159 - 174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×